Cricket match

Whilst speeding off for my daily workout I happened to hear about the Asia cup on the Radio station and I wished myself good luck with all the hype and sixes and shots chat.

I’m not against the sport. I know when you watch it gives another feel and cricket brings people together, and it has deep cultural roots across the subcontinent. A well-fought match can be a beautiful thing. But the fixation? The sky-high emotions, the wrath, the blind radicalism? That’s where we need to pause and reflect.

Every year, the Asia Cup arrives and every year, we execute as if it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. Fans lose sleep, tempers flare.

They are out there in the field sweating it and playing for the world whilst some sit back.

We forget that it is, at the end of the day, a sport. Win or lose it comes and goes. Meanwhile, there are far more pressing issues that deserve our attention and we seem far more comfortable getting fired up about a dropped catch than about rising fuel prices or falling learning outcomes.

Wear your jersey. Enjoy the sixes and the close run-outs. But let’s keep it in perspective and as always imply we are all “Humans” Because when the dust settles, and the scoreboards reset, life goes on. And in that life, we have much more to care about than who won the match.

Mathew Litty
Dubai